
IMPEACH COMPLAINTS
THE Office of the House Secretary General is set to submit anytime this week the impeachment complaints filed against Vice President Sara Duterte to the Office of the Speaker.
In an interview, Secretary General Reginald Velasco said they will not anymore wait for the 4th impeachment due to lack of time.
“We have to act on it this week, We will act on it this week. Itong week na ang deadline,” Velasco said in an interview.
According to Velasco there are no more update on whether or not a 4th impeachment will be filed.
“As of now wala pa. I think we have given them enough time.
We will have to transmit the impeachment complaint to the Office of the Speaker this week,” he said.
Velasco hinted last month at the possibility of some lawmakers filing a fourth complaint against the Vice President.
He said there was a group of 12 majority and minority lawmakers who signified their intention to file a fourth impeachment complaint against Duterte.
When asked what is the plan of these solons, Velasco said there are talks that these lawmakers wanted an easier and faster process which is a vote of 1/3 of the members or 103 in order to transmit it to the Senate.
Earlier, ACT Teachers party-list Rep. France Castro, one of the three endorsers of the second impeachment rap, said she does not feel that there is a fourth impeachment complaint being prepared.
Last January 23, Castro said it would be better if there would be a fourth complaint. However, if there were to be no fourth complaint, Castro said the three raps lodged at Velasco’s office must already be forwarded to Romualdez.
To date, Duterte is facing three impeachment complaints or at least eight articles of impeachment.
The complainants accused Duterte of betrayal of public trust, graft and corruption, bribery and other high crimes for misusing confidential funds of the Office of the Vice President and Department of Education when she was the Secretary.